Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City school system, which-like many big metropolitan systems-is cumbersome and plagued by bureaucracy. In November, an advisory panel headed by Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy proposed that New York be divided into as many as 60 semiautonomous districts with their own parent-dominated policy boards. Such local control, the panel argued, would make the schools more responsible to the needs of the community; it would also keep parents from blaming the city's board of education, a remote central power, for everything that goes wrong. The plan was enthusiastically endorsed by Mayor John Lindsay, who presented...
Quarrels Over Responsibility. With the approval of the city's board of education and the help of a $59,000 planning grant from the Ford Foundation, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment was set up last summer. Local parents elected a committee to run the eight schools in the project and were given power to select principals, allocate funds, and set educational goals and standards. The city board of education supposedly retained only the supervisory authority, but from the start, there were quarrels over divisions of responsibility. School-board officers feared that the committee had been taken over by Black...
...federal and state authorities investigating almost any serious crime; federal authorities would not need a court order in emergency situations involving national security or organized crime. The legislators also authorized a ban on the mail-order sale of handguns, as well as $100 million in federal funds for local law enforcement. And, as many civil libertarians feared, the Senators voted to repeal some Supreme Court rulings they considered were hampering the police...
...delegates to the constitutional convention of the National Federation of Priests' Councils-the first such organization in the world. Inspired by the successful growth of diocesan-wide priests' associations and senate (TIME, Feb. 23), the federation has been in the works for a year and, like its local counterparts, it is designed to give priests a larger share in shaping the attitudes of a changing church...
...computers that other companies were making. One Computer Sciences innovation is Computax, an income tax program that speeds and eases the work for accountants doing corporate or personal tax returns. Another, about to be introduced, is Computicket which will link every kind of entertainment from baseball to ballet to local outlets like supermarkets and enable shoppers not only to pick the seat they want in a matter of seconds but to receive a computerized ticket as well. With only 1% of U.S. computers so far linked to one another v. estimates of 50% within the next decade, Computer Sciences will...